No bottom in sight for Cathie Wood’s ‘spec-tech’ investmentsStocktake: Analysts foresee more pain for Ark fund as Wood berates the Federal Reserve for continuing to raise interest ratesTue Oct 18 2022 - 05:15
Still no sign of stock market capitulationBank of America reports strong inflows into stock investmentTue Oct 18 2022 - 05:00
European stocks are cheap, but risks remainPrice/earnings ratios will look less attractive when earnings inevitably fallTue Oct 18 2022 - 04:28
Elon Musk’s buyer’s remorse over Twitter On current valuations, deal looks like ‘one of the most overpriced acquisitions in the history of tech’Tue Oct 11 2022 - 05:30
Stockwatch: Brighter times ahead for long-term investors? ‘Investors with longer horizons should view downturns “as an opportunity, not a cataclysmic event’Tue Oct 11 2022 - 05:00
Stockwatch: Investor sentiment at lowest point since March 2009Stocks and bonds have both fallen in three consecutive quarters for the first time in 46 years, but investors still aren’t selling offTue Oct 11 2022 - 04:30
‘Not so fast’: Stocks not out of the woods Little evidence to suggest hopes of a dovish pivot by the Federal Reserve might be realisedTue Oct 11 2022 - 04:00
Stockwatch: Counterintuitive tale of an investor with terrible timingResults show that time in the market really is more important than timing the marketTue Sept 20 2022 - 05:30
Stockwatch: Few investors think stocks have bottomedMost thinks lows won’t be reached until next year, but there’s potential for a large bounce if the US avoids a recessionTue Sept 20 2022 - 05:00
Fund managers are ‘super bearish’Euro zone stocks are a no-go area, with allocations hitting their lowest reading on recordTue Sept 20 2022 - 04:45
Cloudy earnings outlook divides analystsFigures in looming third-quarter earnings season should shed light on whether a profits recession can be avertedTue Sept 20 2022 - 04:30
Markets may retest their 2022 lowsFederal Reserve’s hawkish stance makes a retest more likelyTue Sept 13 2022 - 16:23
Stockwatch: Investors are wary of TrussSterling has sunk to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 and multiple analysts have issued cautionary notes about the new PMTue Sept 13 2022 - 05:30
Stockwatch: Can the US avoid recession? Goldman Sachs puts odds of recession at one in three but others argue it is all but inevitableTue Sept 13 2022 - 05:00
Stockwatch: Bearish voices grow louderRebound from June’s lows was likely a bear market rally, so there could be plenty more turbulence aheadTue Sept 13 2022 - 04:00
Stocktake: Global stocks are cheaper, but not cheapHigh inflation, rising rates and major geopolitical strains don’t bode well for market valuationsTue Sept 06 2022 - 05:25
Stocktake: Investors fear further losses in SeptemberIseq in line with its peers as the average national stock market in Europe is now 24% below its 52-week highTue Sept 06 2022 - 05:10
Stocktake: Ordinary investors are very bearishStocks may be higher in 12 months’ time, but the near-term outlook remains murkyTue Sept 06 2022 - 04:50
Stocktake: Fed cheers quietly as the stock market fallsCentral bank chiefs want investors to realise it is serious about reining in inflation.Tue Sept 06 2022 - 04:31
Stocktake: Extended markets pull back in price For all the agonising over interest rates, this may have been a routine case of downside mean reversionTue Aug 30 2022 - 05:45
Stocktake: Are emerging markets a better bet right now than US stocks? US stocks have quadrupled in value over the past 12 years, which makes sluggish emerging markets stocks look like a bargainTue Aug 30 2022 - 05:30
Stocktake: Have market valuations fallen enough? Analysts are divided but one sees scope for a surge in growth thanks to trend-following momentum strategiesTue Aug 30 2022 - 05:15
Stocktake: Is buying stocks on a dip a profitable strategy? Most ordinary investors unintentionally practise a buy-the-dip strategyTue Aug 30 2022 - 05:00
Stocktake: Meme stock madness returns Speculative madness will end sooner rather than later with most retail traders inevitably nursing painful lossesTue Aug 23 2022 - 05:00
Stocktake: Markets shrug off macro concernsMarket technicals are more important than economic fundamentals at market lows, analyst arguesTue Aug 23 2022 - 04:50
Stocktake: Bearish fund managers don’t trust market rallyRally over the last two months may have further room to runTue Aug 23 2022 - 04:00
FT to Jim Cramer: Sorry not sorryFinancial TV anchor takes exception to comments over his call on inflationTue Aug 16 2022 - 05:00
Market rally continues to impressOver 80 per cent of S&P 500 stocks traded above their 50-day moving average last week and Vix is below historical averageTue Aug 16 2022 - 04:45
Did stocks bottom in mid-June?Only once have stocks slumped past earlier low again after recovering over half their lossesTue Aug 16 2022 - 04:35
Stocktake: Earnings season brings some relief to nervous investors Shares climb even for companies that miss expectations indicating that a lot of bad news had already been priced inTue Aug 16 2022 - 04:00
Stocktake: Investors inflate their gains Many investors are prone to inflating their gains and forgetting their losses.Tue Aug 09 2022 - 05:30
Stocktake: Robinhood investors learn a painful lesson Zero-commission US brokerage recently announced it is laying off almost a quarter of its workforce as users quit the platformTue Aug 09 2022 - 05:30
Stocktake: Big gains augur well for stocks The S&P 500 had its best July since 1939Tue Aug 09 2022 - 05:15
Stocktake: Is the bear market over? Some indicators suggest the broad, substantial recovery in recent weeks could be the start of a new bull marketTue Aug 09 2022 - 05:00
Stocktake: Most markets remain below pre-Covid levels Stock markets are comfortably ahead of pre-Covid levels in just four countriesTue Aug 02 2022 - 05:45
Stocktake: With inflation soaring, is housing a better bet than equities? Stocks don’t do nearly as well when inflation is rising or above 3 per centTue Aug 02 2022 - 05:15
No all-clear for stocks just yetStocks hitting new 52-week lows have outnumbered fresh 52-week highs for 34 consecutive weeksTue Aug 02 2022 - 05:00
Stocktake: Is bad news good for stock markets?Markets have shrugged off weak economic data for weeks now and some bullish analysts are suggesting the worst might be overTue Aug 02 2022 - 05:00
Stockwatch: Truss victory could pose a risk to marketsIdea the UK government might encroach on the bank’s independence or follow Japan’s lead would alarm investorsTue Jul 26 2022 - 05:30
Stockwatch: Markets finally enjoy some relief Indices move above 50-day averages and protracted spells in the doldrums – but it doesn’t mean the trouble is overTue Jul 26 2022 - 05:00
Stocktake: Fearful investors are still buying stocks There’s a disconnect between investor sentiment and behaviour at a time when market could still have a long way to fallTue Jul 26 2022 - 04:30
Stocktake: Fund managers are so bearish, it’s bullishCash levels are higher even than in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapseTue Jul 26 2022 - 04:00
Stocktake: Don’t spend your dividends – reinvest themA £100 investment in 1945 is worth £6,370 in real terms after reinvesting dividends, compared to just £252 if you didn’tTue Jul 19 2022 - 05:40
Stocktake: Markets may still be ‘too comfortable’Model suggests markets are not fully pricing in the increasingly unstable fundamental backdropTue Jul 19 2022 - 05:00
Reckless Musk should pay a heavy priceTakeover agreements are meant to be binding, not something to be casually abandonedTue Jul 19 2022 - 04:30
Stocktake: Investors brace for big rate hikeInflation data is so bad that the opportunity for a ‘soft-ish landing has passed’, Goldman Sachs saysTue Jul 19 2022 - 04:00
Analyst downgrades are comingAnalysts ‘sitting there like deer in the headlights’ with an unusually high number of buy ratingsTue Jul 12 2022 - 05:15
Stocks may suffer a ‘final leg lower’There is a large disconnect between how investors are feeling and how they are actingTue Jul 12 2022 - 04:30
Investors haven’t been ‘spoiled’ over the last decadeOver 20 years, annualised returns have been almost two percentage points below averageTue Jul 12 2022 - 04:25
Investors have endured a brutal six months For the first time since 1974, bonds and stocks have fallen two quarters in a row at the same timeTue Jul 12 2022 - 04:00
